On This Date In 1595 Mexican explorer Don
Juan de Oñate's petition and contract for the conquest of New Mexico was presented to Luís de Velasco,
the viceroy of Nueva Vizcaya. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep21.html
On This Date In 1638 The Treaty of
Hartford divided the spoils of, and brought to an end, the Pequot War,
virtually eliminating the Pequot Indians.
On This Date In 1676 Blessed Pope Innocent
XI (May 16, 1611 – August 12, 1689), born Benedetto Odescalchi, was elected
Pope, and served until his death in 1689.
On This Date In 1779 During the American
Revolution, the Louisiana governor and Spanish
military officer Bernardo de Galvez, with the aide of American troops and
militia volunteers, captured the British post and garrison at Baton
Rouge, located in what was then British-controlled West Florida.
On This Date In 1780 During the American
Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold met with British Major John Andre
to discuss handing over West Point to the
British, in return for the promise of a large sum of money and a high position
in the British army. The plot was foiled and Arnold, a former American hero,
became synonymous with the word “traitor.”
On This Date In 1784 The nation's first
daily newspaper, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, began
publication.
On This Date In 1792 The National
Convention, or the executive government of the French First
Republic, proclaimed the
abolition of kingship.
On This Date In 1846 Through September 24,
the Battle of Monterrey was fought during the Mexican-American War. General
Pedro de Ampudia and the Mexican Army of the North was defeated by U.S.
forces under the command of Zachary Taylor and William J. Worth.
On This Date In 1864 The Battle of
Fisher's Hill was fought as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the
American Civil War. A Union victory, four Union Army enlisted men and one
officer received the Medal of Honor in the action at Fisher's Hill, located
near Strasburg, Virginia.
On This Date In 1897 “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” was published in the New York Sun. http://academic2.american.edu/~wjc/santa.htm
On This Date In 1912 Harry Houdini's first
public performance of the Chinese Water
Torture Cell was at the Circus Busch in Berlin,
Germany.
On This Date In 1917 Austria-Hungary and Germany made separate replies to
the proposal issued by Pope Benedict XV at the beginning of the previous month
calling for an immediate armistice between the Allied and Central Powers in
World War I. The one exception to the general rejection, by all sides, of the
Papal Peace Note of August 1917 was Austria-Hungary.
On This Date In 1921 The Oppau explosion
occurred when a tower silo storing 4,500 tons of a mixture of ammonium sulfate
and ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, now part of
Ludwigshafen, Germany, killing 500–600 people and injuring about 2,000 more.
On This Date In 1937 During the Second
Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, commanded by Prince
Naruhiko Higashikuni, began aerial bombardment of Nanking.
On This Date In 1937 “The Hobbit,” a
fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien, was published. The book
was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York
Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction.
On This Date In 1937 During World War II,
and the Invasion of Poland, the second Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski was fought.
The largest tank battle of the campaign, this German victory resulted in the
destruction of the Polish forces.
On This Date In 1938 The New England
Hurricane of 1938 was the first major hurricane to strike New
England since 1869. Making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on Long Island, New
York, the hurricane was estimated to have killed
between 682 and 800 people, damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused
property losses estimated at US$306 million ($4.7 Billion in 2012). To date it
remains the most powerful, costliest and deadliest hurricane in recent New England history, eclipsed in landfall intensity
perhaps only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.
On This Date In 1942 The first Boeing B-29
Superfortress made its maiden flight from Boeing Field, Seattle. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=527
On This Date In 1943 The Massacre of the
Acqui Division took place, the mass execution of approximately 5000 men of the
Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division by the Germans on the island of Cephalonia,
Greece,
following the Italian armistice during World War II.
On This Date In 1955 “Tennessee's Partner,” a Western film
starring Ronald Reagan in what Peter Bogdanovich called his “most likeable
performance,” was released by RKO Radio Pictures. It co-starred John Payne as Tennessee, and was
directed by Allan Dwan.
On This Date In 1961 During the Vietnam
War, the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces,
was activated at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina. The Special
Forces were formed to organize and train guerrilla bands behind enemy lines.
President John F. Kennedy, a strong believer in the potential of the Special
Forces in counterinsurgency operations, visited the Special
Warfare Center
at Fort Bragg to review the program and
authorized the Special Forces to wear the headgear that became their symbol,
the Green Beret.
On This Date In 1968 Jeannie C. Riley
became the first female performer to top the Billboard Country and Pop charts
simultaneously, with “Harper Valley P.T.A.”
On This Date In 1981 Philadelphia Phillies
pitcher Steve Carlton struck out the 3,118th batter of his career to break Bob
Gibson’s National League record for career strikeouts. Despite Carlton’s 10 shutout
innings and 12 strikeouts, the Phillies lost the marathon game to the Montreal
Expos in the 17th inning, 1-0.
On This Date In 1984 “Places in the Heart,”
a drama film written and directed by Robert Benton, was released by TriStar
Pictures. The movie stars Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan,
John Malkovich, Danny Glover, and Terry O'Quinn.
On This Date In 1987 “Dirty Dancing,"
an American romance film written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile
Ardolino, was released by Vestron Pictures. The film features Patrick Swayze
and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry
Orbach.
On This Date In 1987 Jaco Pastorius
(December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987), an influential American jazz musician,
composer and electric bass player, died from a massive brain hemorrhage. John
Francis Anthony Pastorius III was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame
in 1988, one of only six bassists to be so honored (and the only electric bass
guitarist).
On This Date In 1989 The Senate Armed
Forces Committee unanimously confirmed President George H. Bush's nomination of
Army General Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell was
the first African American to achieve the United States' highest military
post.
On This Date In 1990 “The Razors Edge,”
the 12th Australian and 11th international studio album by Australian hard rock
band AC/DC, was released on Atco Records. The album reached #2 on the US
Billboard 200 and #4 in the UK,
a smash commercial success that returned the band to the popularity of its
glory years between the mid-1970s and early 1980s. The album has been certified
5x platinum (5 million copies sold) in the US.
On This Date In 1990 “Goodfellas,” an
American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, was released by Warner Bros.
It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas
Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. Goodfellas grossed $46.8 million domestically, well above its $25
million budget. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best
Picture and Best Director, and won one for Pesci in the Best Actor in a
Supporting Role category. Scorsese's film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts,
including Best Film, and Best Director.
On This Date In 1993 “Face the Heat,” the
twelfth studio album (14th including major live recordings) by German heavy metal
band Scorpions, was released on the PolyGram label. It was produced by the band
and the late Bruce Fairbairn.
On This Date In 1999 The 921 earthquake,
also known as the Jiji earthquake, occurred in Jiji, Nantou County, Taiwan.
2,415 people were killed, 11,305 injured, and NT$300 billion (US$10 billion)
worth of damage was done. It was the second-deadliest quake in recorded history
in Taiwan,
after the 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung earthquake.
On This Date In 1999 “The Fragile,” the
third studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, was
released on Interscope Records. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails
frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. The Fragile peaked at number one on the
US Billboard 200 chart in its debut week, before dropping to number 16 the
following week. The album has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry
Association of America, for shipments of one million copies in the United States.
On This Date In 2001 A huge explosion
occurred in the AZF fertilizer factory in Toulouse,
France,
belonging to the Grande Paroisse branch of the Total group. Three hundred tons
of ammonium nitrate was stored in the hangar #221. The whole factory was
destroyed, making a crater of depth 20 to 30 m (65 to 100 ft), with a diametre
of 200 m (650 ft). The blast measured 3.4 on the Richter scale, with an
estimated power equivalent to 20-40 tons of TNT.
On This Date In 2011 Two American hikers
imprisoned on espionage charges in Iran
were released, and brought by diplomatic convoy to a plane that took them to Oman. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/world/middleeast/iranian-lawyer-says-2-american-hikers-hopefully-are-about-to-be-freed.html?_r=0
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Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or
incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better
opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. William Pollard
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot
change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress
implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education
creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. George Savile
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from
the known to the unknown. Benjamin Franklin
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather
strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Thomas Paine
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To honor the sacrifice of service members who were prisoners
of war or are still missing in action, observances of National POW/MIA
Recognition Day, traditionally observed on the third Friday in September, are
held across the country on military installations, ships at sea, state
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reason mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein
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